Computational Biology
Abstract artistic representation of alkaline hydrothermal vents with spiraling geological formations

The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds

A reformulated theory for the origin of life focusing on alkaline hydrothermal vents as electrochemical reactors.

Computational Biology
A reconstruction of LUCA within its evolutionary and ecological context

The Nature of LUCA and Early Earth System

Phylogenomic reconstruction of LUCA revealing a complex, 4.2 Ga old acetogen living in an established ecosystem.